None of those sorts of things will matter, because so many people are so ready to believe the worst of Christians and Christianity, because so many have so much emotion invested in the idea that virtually all Christians are narrow-minded, hate-filled, fear-based, hypocritical misogynistic homophobes.

When two black children tried to integrate my 8th-grade classroom and were met with a hate-filled mob of my fellow students, I began to perceive that black people in my small southern town of Millington, Tennessee were victims of a cruel and historic racial injustice.

I am not apologizing for everything the Bush administration did, but it is clear that in trying to stay "above the fray" and not respond to the truly vitriolic and hate-filled ravings of the far-left blogs and the slightly-less-far-left mainsteam media, George W. Bush did the country and his legacy a real disservice.